Student Design Competition

Established in 1975 and administered by the Education, Training, Workforce and Development Division (ETWDD), the competition is intended to promote excellence in the design aspect of nuclear engineering education in the universities. A key feature of the program is industry participation in the judging of the annual design problem.

Any university is eligible to submit solutions to nuclear engineering design problems, but participants must have a university affiliation and a faculty member as an advisor. There are separate competitions for graduate and undergraduate students. Each university must review solutions by its students and select the best from each category for submission.

A call for submission of nuclear engineering related design problems is issued by March, the intent to participate, the 450 to 900-word summary, and the report are due in June.

Deadline:ANS Transactions summaries are due June 8, 2018.Intent form and final design reports are due June 15, 2018